I can’t blame you if you’ve forgotten Georgia Tech is holding its spring game tonight. It’s not as if there’s been a huge amount decent level any promotion of the event.
In fact, I’m not sure Tech really cares at all.
Georgia Tech has broadcast its past four spring games online, but will not do so this year. The reason is that the athletic department has committed to using its in-house production capabilities to an online broadcast of the softball team’s home game against North Carolina, which also is being played Friday evening.
An online broadcast of a home softball game trumping your football team’s spring game sends quite the message to recruits, don’t it? Not that the genius is all that concerned.
At the least, coach Paul Johnson wasn’t protesting the decision.
“There’s no advantage into giving your opponents the spring game,” he said Wednesday after the team’s 14th practice of the spring. “I just don’t know what you’d gain from that.”
When the Jackets go 12-0 this season, remember where it started.
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A client friend of mine who is a GT grad and long-time season ticket holder is sick of Johnson. He understands that they can’t afford to fire him financially or for the program. He told me he believed it would be a total rebuild from top to bottom. Kirby is going to take the Drought away from them, and it’s going to be glorious to see.
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I went down to the GT last year and rode down to the stadium with some GT season ticket holder. They were sick of him as well but understood the finances of the programs.
It will be a total rebuild, and I hope to see UGA finally get the longest winning streak in the series’ history. It would be even better to see Fish Fry on the sideline watching the clock tick down to 0:00.0 I never disliked GT so much until him. They were just an annoying insect before Fish Fry.
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I agree that they can’t afford to fire him. But I thought all their graduates were millionaires so that is strange. I am glad, because a new coach that ran the spread could take a few recruits from us. By the way, I was not a good player in high school but I have actually played the game at a higher level than FishFry and we have the exact same amount of college playing experience.
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Yeah, that’s the hilarious part. Whenever I read a tech site, everyone keeps saying how rich they all are.
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I doubt there will be even 93 in attendance.
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There is no excuse for GT to be as miserable as they are considering the talent gold mine they sit on top of. As a Georgia fan I’m not complaining but Stanford does pretty well despite the academics. Fish Fry is absolutely killing them not only each year they stay but what coach would want to inherit his roster?
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I’m sorry Mr.Brandon. It appears you are developing a slight case of Nerdo-sympathitis and we are concerned that it may spread to other parts of your psyche, potentially causing your bourbon to taste bad and UGA co-ed’s to appear less attractive.
Should you find yourself suddenly fascinated with your own shoe laces or pocket protectors, please follow the links here at GTP to “Georgia Tech Football” and study the comment section carefully. Occasional doses of “Stingtalk” (when available) can also be helpful but special care should be taken, an overdose may exacerbate your condition.
Love,
Dr. Cowdog
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Hilarious, Dr. Cowdog.
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I hope you would do the same for me.
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And let’s be clear on another thing.
Georgia Tech is no Stanford.
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Certainly they are not, either academically or athletically, I get so tired of the “academics” excuse of GT. My point was, Stanford, by any measure is a difficult academic environment for many football players (hell, for students in general), they just are also on fertile recruiting ground and don’t run their program like total shit and hence are regularly competitive.
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That excuse from GT is akin to that old high school classmate who tried to convince everyone that the hottest girls in school all liked him, even though he never dared approach them and they certainly didn’t approach him either. Yet he figured that as long as he wasn’t officially rejected, he could continue with his prideful delusion with a 0% rejection rate.
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That’s actually genius. As of now, I’m the guy that Kate Beckinsale has NOT rejected for 15 years in a row. I’m working on a book about it.
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All I can say is fishfry should thank his lucky stars Lewis Grizzard isn’t around. That program is comedy gold.
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Would rather walk to hell with a broke back than watch a GT football game…
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Why would opponents want to watch GT’s spring game?
They only run three plays.
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4, they have a pass play.
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Well, it’s a forward pass in the technical sense of the term, but calling it a fully formed play might be a stretch. I’ve seen 8 year olds that were more competent passers than what Tech has been sending out there.
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Hey! Look at the bright side of all this … This will be great for tech softball recruiting!
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The “in-joke” to the punchline of Tech football being pre-empted is that their softball team stinks and has for years. Which is kind of surprising because, and stop me if you’ve heard this sort of thing before, the state of Georgia produces some very good softball players, but none of them seem to end up at Georgia Tech.
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It’s pretty clear that enthusiasm for Tech Football is declining. Not that it has been anywhere close to it’s glory days for a long time. CPJ recruits 3 stars and does the best he can with them. The administration seems fine with that and as long as their larger contributor’s are not screaming, then I guess they are good with that. I do not think they understand the potential threat to their position in the state. With Georgia widening the gap each year and Tech settling for mediocrity; it opens the door for another school to come in an compete for those second tier players that Tech has owned. And that school is Georgia State. They actually have the potential to build a very strong program that could surpass Tech in a matter of three to four years. If I were GSU – I would do my best to get Tech on the calendar annually and work to take their place as the best alternative in the state. Georgia Southern can be good, but because of their location in the state, they are not near as inviting as a solid Georgia State Program would be, located in the heart of Atlanta.
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Been saying for a couple of years that Georgia State is the second best program in the state. It started as a way to insult the nerds but as you note it is starting to become a reasonable argument.
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This isn’t @popehat, I don’t have constantly evolving display names.
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“When your opponent is down, do not take pity. Put him to the sword.”
Harriet Tubman
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Soooo… we’re just leaving the Friday Night Lights/high school offense jokes on the table, or..?
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What about the “Well, Tech was always really more of a softball school,” jokes?
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We beat their @$$3$ in softball as well.
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….and all of yall want to keep this game on the schedule ? (just checking) I willingly concede to the wishes of Georgia residents and taxpayers on this (i’m just a uga alum), but damn. Doesn’t mean I don’t shake my head.
Do yall have tons of Tech friends / neighbors / coworkers who you have water cooler talk with ? Do they hang out and talk football ? Isn’t that half the fun of in-state rivalries ? When I was at UGA, I can’t ever recall my buddies saying crap about Tech or Tech friends or whatever. Who are the people sustaining this “clean old fashioned hate?” Most of the students didn’t even bother coming back early from Thanksgiving break when the game was in Athens.
I’m not trying to be a smartass. If Georgians want to keep playing this, then by all means continue. But IMO, it’s a sorry ass rivarly game that does absolutely NOTHING for UGA anymore.
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A near guaranteed P5 win over a long time rival is something I savor. I enjoy it every year.
College football is about tradition. Beating Tech’s ass every year is a wonderful tradition.
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Tony, please tell us you are trolling……….
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The best I can do is take the “don’t feel sorry for your rival when they’re down” adage to heart and leave this alone. I suppose I should just enjoy the seal clubbing as long as it lasts…….at some point, some hugh freeze type is probably going to come in there and will make us spitting angry again and I’ll long for the boring and predictable and mocking days of Fish Fry. But that’s about the best I got.
I guess what I’m saying is……in all the other nearby states except maybe Tennessee, you’re either in Camp A or Camp B…..do Georgia fans even encounter Tech fans like this ? (serious question) Do Tech fans wear their school pride on their sleeve like us ? I have always considered the answer to be an increasingly and waning “no” but I don’t live there.
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True confession: in 2003 at Bobby Dodd, I did get a full cup of water thrown straight to the face (up the nose really, it was admittedly well executed) by a 60+yr old Tech fan. I was the lone Georgia fan in the Tech section until finally deciding to move to our upper deck…..moved right after the Tech fumble and ensuing score by lumpkin. Dude had been harassing me from a few rows up. He had an aisle seat and I gave him a “how you like them apples” (Good Will Hunting) on my way out and he just had his cup ready or something. Got me good. That did make me hate them.
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To answer: Yes.
Especially where engineering and management scopes overlap. They (it’s always they for some reason) cannot help aggrandize themselves. They’re cannibalistic, and will attempt to prey on engineers with “lesser degrees” from such schools such as Duke or anything with state in the title. Since their degrees are typically trade specific, they often struggle with big picture problems (especially the freshly minted ones) and have been known to interrupt cash flow on a project while they search for conflict resolution that doesn’t require admission/ correction of oversight on their part. They will also spend copious amounts of your contingency funds to make this so, if allowed.
And if you must interact with them on a daily basis and they are aware that you are a UGA fan, God forbid they actually win one, they remind me of monkeys slinging feces at the zoo.
They don’t call it “Good Old Fashioned Hate” for nothing. They could leave off the “Good” in the title and that would be fine with me.
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Their “business” degree holders are possibly worse. Their arrogance pushes the definition of the word.
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It’s actually “Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate”. But I get your point. It was a lot more civilized back in the day.
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Well, it’s weird how the Tech sweatshirts materialize out of thin air even here in Athens on those rare occasions when they’ve won. Until we take their precious Drought from them, I will play them until the end of time.
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… everyone already knows your plays, Fish Fry.
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My goodness. The difference between Kirby and Fish Fry is startling. Can you IMAGINE Kirby not giving half a damn if the spring game is televised, or not? Why does it matter asks the nerd in chief? Recruiting!!! To hell with the plays you moron, it’s about the players!!!
Damn what a fool.
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Yeah, over the years he has made it clear that he hates playing the recruiting game – coddling kids, stroking egos etc.
IMO it’s because it is difficult. Hard to imagine the UGA fan base allowing a coach to say “Well we could do those things, but we’re not going to because its really hard to compete with other schools”.
He can hide behind scheme and academics but the truth is He’s lazy Bruh. Offensive scheme has nothing to do with the caliber of defensive players you bring in.
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Few things in sports are more fun than pounding bees and watching their fans abandon Grant Field/ Bobby Dobb Stadium/ Nerddom. It never gets old.
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Nerds gonna nerd.
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